The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-11

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the throat or jaws. Feed wish green food and
keep the bowels shade loose by bran mashes,
with an occasional bait of linseed meal. Give
also a tonic, consisting of equal parts
OF copperas, saltpeter and sulphur,
a teaspoonful once a day every other
| day. After giving this two weeks change to
| following: Give oats and hay in place OF
| green food and bran, and q half ounce of
powdered gentian, and drachm each of car
Donate OF ammonia and powdered allspice,
| every day. Where tho irritation of the eve
comes from disposition to weak eyes (moon-
| eyed only palliative treatment is available
Feed as little corn as possible, give some oats,
and all the green feed possible, and use as an
eye wash weak solution of bluestone.
| Reader Echodell, Ga: Do potato vines make good
| forage? How should they be managed?
Potato vines are excellent feed for milk
COWS, if fed green, Some parties have claimed
that they cured them: we have never seen it
| done. Cows fed on the green vines give o
| very superior article of milk and butter. As
there are several weeks just before and after
| the first light frosts when the vines may be
| removed without material injury to the tubers,
| 1t is best to feed them during that period
| either allowing cattle to Craze on them which
is unobjectionable if the ground is dry-or cut
ting them and feeding to stock i'll the stall.
B. A. East Felicana: l. wish 10 make crop
OF haysneXt year. Crab grass and leSpede both do
well here, but it is late before either can be cut: and
| would like TO get your advice as to what seed to
plant, when to them and what fertilizer to use
| In order that may have an early summer hay to
! cut.
Q Can peavines be baled and marketed?
First-Orchard tall meadow oat grasses and
red clover, when fully established, furnish
early cuttings in the spring May. But, sown
now, they would hardly do so next spring
| Sown early in September on very rich land
they will do so, if the seasons are favorable.
The second year after seeding you might rely
on them. For cutting next spring, the most
| reliable crop you can start now is rye. Sow at
| once and manure it well, and it maybe counted
| on with great certainty. Must be cut when in
"boot" or in the early stages of heading to be
| relished by stock; gets woody and hard if al
| lowed to remain uncut too long Oats sown
| in the spring on bottom land and cut when
seed are in dough stage make excellent hay.
| Still later you can sow German millet it will
| come i'll advance of crabgrass. But hardly any
crop pays better than crabgrass. Plough
| piece of land about the LIST OF May harrow and
! smooth it Off not rich, manure it. You NAV
count on crop of hay with about
as much certainty as on any crop
grown on the farm. Stable manure cotton
seed, or cotton seed meal, will either of them
answer for any of the crops mentioned Am
| moniated fertilizers also make crab grass grow
| finely.
2. Doubtful if it would pay. The difficulty
| of curing and the shedding of the leaves in
| handling are obstacles in the way 1t would
| pay a farmer better to feed all the neavines he
| can get to his own stock, and have the benefit
| Of the rich manure therefrom for his own
| farm.
l.. H sunbury, n. c.: /, I have two acres OF bot
| tom land that wish TO put in grass. Cotton is
! growing on portion Of it. Some portions are wet
| and springy though seldom oyerfows. What kind
! of grass orclover to YOU advise to sow and when?
| q Pm on sc degrees west latitude. viii October
Is be too late to sow clover and orchard grass on
| high land here?
| rearing up. Mariugales have failed to keep her
down. When you attempt to ride on her back she
will rear up, walk on her hind feet and very often
| fall backwards.
| Rcd top and white clover are best for the
| land described, especially for the wet part On
! the dry portion, orchard grass and red clover
| would be better. In your locality the seeding
had better be deferred till spring, say the first
| of March.
| End. Yes. If the fall and early winter should
happen to be exceptionally mild, it might do
| very well TO sow clover and grass the middle
| of October, but as as q rule, they would be
| quite sure to be haaycd cut of the ground or
| killed
Sd. We are not experts on this line. Can
any reader give the information sought. The
following is suggested on general principles:
| Put strong surcngle, with ring
in the middle, underneath tho breast OF ami
NAL, and fasten a rope TO the bit and to the
| hind leg of the animal, pa: sing it through the
ring on the surcmgle. Two ropes will be re-
| quired, one for each foot. Let the ropes be
| just long enough for the animal TO hold its head
! little downward. Thus geared, we do not
think it cc;ld rear up 1t could not travel, of
course but it might, in this condition, be
| taught TO allow one to mount and sit on its
| back.
E. I. l., Seneca, s What time would be best to
| clip the cuttings from the LoConte pear tree and
| When would you set them out, and what is the best
| way to set them OuR
In the southern portion Of Georgia, where
this pear is most extensively cultivated the
! practice, we believe, is to clip the cuttings
| soon after the leaves fall off The tree is then
! in a state of comparative rest, and is as little
| disturbed by pruning as at any other season
| True, cuttings may be taken at any time dur
| ing the winter before the spring growth begins
| But this pear starts out very early and cut
| tings should not be taken later than
| the middle Of February. Although
a cutting put cut in early winter
| does not show any growth above ground till
| spring there are changes going on underground
| preparatory to and favorable to the
spring growth. The incpient steps
towards the formation of roots may
be going on all winter and the plant be better
| prepared to respond to the first warmth of
| spring. The cuttings are taken from the
| young but well-matured wood, are made about
a foot long and placed perpendicularly-n
| slanting-in the ground, leaving only one bud,
| or at the outside two, above the surface. They
are put out in rows three or four feet apart, to
admit cultivation, and a foot or 50 from each
other in the row. A good many die under the
best management
! Please say to s. B. K, of Tawaga, Ca that can
| supply him with limited amount Of ealamus
win any Of your readers toll me where can get the
! genuine Spanish pea nuts, and obAge yours truly,
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